Holding back a sudden swell of emotion, Alexis Winch paused to take a breath.
“It’s been hard,” the 11-year-old Ashburn figure skater said Tuesday of the fallout from the Jan. 29, 2025, crash of American Airlines Flight 5342. “Some people left the rink, some even quit. It’s just like – you’re losing a lot of people. A lot of people switched rinks because their coach died or they lost someone really important to them.”
Winch was friends with Everly Livingston, 14, a victim of the regional jet’s mid-air collision with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River…